John Wade
John Wade
Professor of Law
Bond University
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The Behaviour of Family lawyers and the Implications for Legal Education
John Wade, University of Sydney
DATE: January 1989
SOURCE: Legal Education Review, Vol. 1, no. 2. pp. 165-181
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Wade, John (1989). The Behaviour of Family Lawyers and the Implications for Legal Education. Legal Education Review Vol. 1, No. 2 pp. 165-181
Reproduced with permission of Legal Education Review published by Faculty of Law, University of Sydney.
ABSTRACT:
[Extract] Legal educators have often developed courses with the purported goal of teaching students to "think like lawyers." Yet little is known about the ways various classes of lawyers think or behave. This paper offers some insights through anecdotal observations of the behaviour of family lawyers in Sydney. It must be conceded, however, that even beginning to demystify lawyerly behaviour does little to resolve current debates about the goals and methods of legal education.